1 / 4

The Modern World

The Modern World. Dylan J ohnson Michael Sanchez . A Way Of Life . The Modern World began at the start of the 20 th century and is still present to this day. Early 1900’s economy was stable. People worked for a living. Ruled by a dictator ship. Owned multiple territories.

andra
Télécharger la présentation

The Modern World

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. The Modern World Dylan Johnson Michael Sanchez

  2. A Way Of Life • The Modern World began at the start of the 20th century and is still present to this day. • Early 1900’s economy was stable. • People worked for a living. • Ruled by a dictator ship. • Owned multiple territories. • World War 1 and 2 greatly effects on a international level. • Still on Social Darwinism, and was in a depression during the 1930’s known as The Great Slump.

  3. World War 1&2 • 1910: South Africa obtains independence from Britain. Union of South Africa formed segregation governing rule. • 1914: World War 1 starts after the assassination of Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand. • 1918: The war ends with economic devastation on all sides. • The war cost 750,000 lives and billions of dollars which plummeted Great Britain into a depression. • United State’s stock market crashes causing a world wide depression. • Britain is pulled into the World War 2 in 1939 after Hitler invades Poland. • Germany surrenders in 1945. USA drops the atomic bombs on Japan.

  4. Famous Literature & Art • Matisse & Les Fauves 2 artist in the early Modern World. • Karl Marx wrote “Das Kapital.” • Virginia Woolf developed a technique called “Stream of Consciousness.” • Upton Sinclair wrote “The Jungle.”

More Related